* Large numbers gathered in Boston town centre to see a Boston soldier honoured for his actions at The Front.

The position was being shelled all the time and three rounds burst within 15 yards of him.

Bomr Ralph Eric Tooley, son of Mr J. H. Tooley, was presented with the Military Medal in front of a crowd outside Boston’s Assembly Rooms, plus ‘a number of ladies’ watching from the building’s balcony.

Brigadier-Major Henderson said Bomr Tooley was receiving the honour for his actions on July 29 of that year when his battery came under fire from 15cm shells.

“During the shelling, he (with two others) extinguished a fire caused by a direct hit on a gunpit,” he said. “Several rounds of ammunition in a pit exploded.